Silas Bexley

Two decades ago on an expedition through the jungles of Monsagi, Lord Dunthorpe found a tiny baby bunny roughly tied to a tree. It was a shin’hare runt, the smallest of the litter, that had been bound and abandoned to starve to death. Normally, Dunthorpe strictly adhered to a personal policy of never interfering with the creatures he studied, but the bunny was so weak, pathetic, and close to death that the good doctor’s heart melted.

Lord Dunthorpe brought the sickly shin’hare back to Cerulea and nursed the creature to health. He named the rabbit Silas Bexley (the first names of his two grandfathers) and raised the creature as his own. Despite being an act of grace and charity, Dunthorpe also wanted to study what would happen to a shin’hare when removed from their typical environment of cruelty and aggression.

Silas thrived. The shin’hare’s curiosity and intellect rivaled even that his famous “father”, and the two formed an impenetrable bond. Silas was the first shin’hare to ever join the Cartographers, and he now joins Dunthorpe on all of his expeditions.

Sir Bexley’s strengths are his sharp wit and his animal senses. He can use his keen nose to smell danger far sooner than any human, and his magnificently sensitive ears are constantly attuned to his environment. However, he is physically weak, even for a shin’hare, and often complains he spends half his life fleeing from the very beasts he and Lord Dunthorpe are supposed to be studying.

Despite his natural loquaciousness, the one topic Silas refuses to discuss is his opinion of the bloodthirsty shin’hare brethren who discarded him as an infant.